When the summer sun shines and temperatures climb, conditions are ripe for Minnesota lakes to produce harmful algal blooms. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reminded people this week that some ...

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's Lake ...

Microcystis aeruginosa (M. aeruginosa), one of the most abundant blue-green algae in aquatic environments, produces ...

Some types of cyanobacteria produce toxins, and so these algal blooms can not only be harmful to wildlife and livestock, but to people using the water as well. The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake ...

This group will focus on the role these embayments play as sources of toxins to the open waters. Specific objectives include: To investigate the occurrence of toxic cyanobacteria in the Lake Ontario's ...

Toxins in water produced by cyanobacteria killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year, officials said on Monday, announcing the result of an investigation into the deaths which had ...

Neurotoxic and hepatotoxic cyanobacteria are found in freshwater bodies while only hepatotoxic blooms occur in the Baltic Sea. We developed molecular tools to detect toxins and odorous metabolites ...

As a service to local, state and federal investigators, we often analyze samples for cyanobacterial toxicity submitted by outside agencies. This provides a mechanism by which we develop and improve ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed ...